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What to look for when you’re hiring a Head of Growth

Andrew Chen

For example, the Acquisition Effect is powered by viral growth and the user experience that compels one set of users to invite their others into the network. If you are working on a product in real estate that competes with Redfin, the expert skill is probably figuring out how to capture high-intent traffic — like SEO/SEM.

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The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics – 80 slide deck included!

Andrew Chen

Of course, as an investor you can’t run A/B tests or analyze results directly, but you can form hypotheses, ideate, and apply the same type of thinking. Thinking about new user experience, engagement metrics, and other important concepts. 3) And finally, to prioritize and make decisions that impact the future.

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